The Pentagon has announced that MSgt Randy J. Gillespie, 44, died July 9 in Herat, Afghanistan, of wounds received from small arms fire near Camp Stone. Gillespie deployed to Operation Enduring Freedom from the 56th Logistics Readiness Squadron at Luke AFB, Ariz.
A three-month continuing resolution that ended in December inflicted less pain on the Department of the Air Force than it had expected, as procurement and construction continue in the new year. The federal government operated under a stopgap spending measure that stretched from the beginning of the fiscal year on…